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Hypothetically I'd never add sweetener to DC, but this can must have been in my garage for too long, and was bitter. Since I keep sweetener in my desk for tea, it would have seemed like a good idea at the time, if I'd really had to do such a thing.

OK. Say you brew beer in the kitchen. You have a 5 gallon jar of CO2 saturated beer, and you want to add some yeast nutrients (which should have gone in when you first brewed it, but you forgot).

A smart person would dissolve said powered nutrients in water, and pour that in. A person in a hurry would dump in the power, and watch in horror as each speck drew to it a collection of tiny bubbles. These bubbles would then rush out of the top of the bottle, bringing 2 (two!) gallons of beer with them.

Hypothetically try a mentos. Mentos will make it taste better. =)Do you not watch MythBusters? Because you seem like someone who would watch MythBusters.(If you still don't know what I an talking about google mentos and diet coke.)

Also, while one may think to look for the nearest liquid when a candle accidentally catches something else on fire. Hypothetically, while Coke is a liquid and one might think it'll do in a pinch to suffocate the flame it may in fact result in a fire flash bright enough to be seen in the next room......hypothetically.

I spilled a can of Diet Coke once over my neurologists desk & floor.Needless to say,he was not pleased ( his exact words were "that's the last time I let a patient with a drink into my office." He probably went home and blogged about me.

Another good hypothetical would not to be eating certain candies and take a large swig of diet cherry coke. Very close effects to your hypothetical but in mine it involves a double spectrometer and Raman optical setup. Hypothetically your lab assistant would laugh his tushy off as foamy goodness shoots out of ones nose. thank goodness I didn't hit the laser.

So if I (hypothetically) dumped the Diet Coke out of a can and filled it with some non-sweet liquid (like brake fluid) you would dump in Sweet & Low and try to drink it anyway?Is there something illogical about doctoring (no pun...) something that you don't recognize the taste of, can't see, didn't even sniff, in a can...???

I'm bothered more by the fact that you left Diet Coke in your garage so long that it went "bad" (if that's even possible), and then you tried to fix it up with artifical sweetener and drink it anyway.......eek.......

And my verification word was "hogra" - now I'm thinking of a giant, flying, mutant pig that battled Godzilla.....like Mothra, only pink.........

My husband came to me waving an article from ?? Years ago accusing me of trying to kill him! He is an avid diet coke drinker and for some reasons likes it out of cans as opposed to 2 liter (less expensive!) Bottles. I buy the 12 pks when on sale in large quantities and would store them in the garage. We live in a VERY warm desert climate and I'm sure the garage gets up to 115 or more. The article stated that high temps convert chemicals in the diet coke to some sort of toxic chemicals. Maybe that's why it tastes so bitter! I now run a 2nd fridge in the garage, obviously offsetting any savings on sale prices but at least paranoid hubby doesn't think I'm trying to kill him anymore! Maybe Mrs Grumpy really is grumpy...

I am a new reader and have been binge reading so this reply is 5 years late and probably wont be seen, BUT I am a nurse and one time I tried to add thickener to Diet Coke for patient on a dysphagia diet and it was like a volcano at a science fair! I screamed so loud every nurse on the unit came running

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